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2nd Afterlife Awareness Conference features consortium of experts

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The Second Annual Afterlife Awareness Conference will take place March 9 - 11 in cooperation with Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Afterlife Education Foundation recently announced. The conference will feature workshops and presentations by a nationally-recognized consortium of researchers, educators and counselors in the field of death, bereavement and afterlife research. The event will be at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel in Virginia Beach, VA. The … [Read more...]

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The Gift of a Dead Body

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Looking back, I never thought that a brief encounter with a dying man in India would have shaped the foundation of my career, and lay the groundwork for my spiritual journey. After 20 years, I now see how everything fell into place. "Why don't you sit with that man over there -- he's dying." I heard these welcoming words from a man who motioned me to a cot at Mother Teresa's Home for the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta (now Kolkata). While backpacking in India as an impressionable 24 year … [Read more...]

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In Memorium: Rita Gallagher Rosenberg

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Rita Gallagher Rosenberg Rita Gallagher Rosenberg, 61, of Wayzata died on October 22, 2010, following a long-term illness. Rita was survived by her loving husband, Howard. Rita graduated from Roosevelt High School and Mankato State College with a BS in Urban Studies. She was an advocate for women and journalist. Rita helped establish the first battered women's shelter and center for victims of rape in Minneapolis. She befriended many women and mentored them in being more understanding, … [Read more...]

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In Memorium: Ronald L. King, DDS

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Ronald L. King, DDS Ronald L. King, 62, a husband, father and noted dentist, died on October 21, 2010 of cancer. In recent days, Dr. King was in a hospice in Edina, attended by his wife, Lynn, and his daughters Rachel and Lisa. Growing up in Richfield, MN, Ronald King was a Boy Scout who attained the rank of Eagle. He played baritone saxophone in his high school's marching band and was a ski jumper and captain on the high school's ski team. He received his bachelor's degree from the … [Read more...]

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The Mind’s Eye: Making Friends with Death

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Welcome to my first column in The Edge. Thanks to all who have read previous articles and sent me notes or spoken to me in person. I appreciate your appreciation and I appreciate you too. So, it's with a certain degree of delicious irony that I'm celebrating a beginning by talking about endings. I have always been intrigued by death. Even as a child, I would imagine what it was like to die in particular ways - a car speeding into a brick wall. Death by electrocution. Nuclear war. Nuclear war … [Read more...]

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From tragedy to transformation — a mother’s story

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I have always been intrigued by various aspects of spirituality -- ESP, psychics, spirit communication. I found each of these totally fascinating, but I had absolutely no personal experience with any of them. Everything changed on September 20, 2003 when my 20-year old daughter, Elizabeth, died of smoke inhalation from a fire in her duplex just a few blocks from the University of Minnesota, where she had just begun her sophomore year. That day my life was turned upside down. My journey … [Read more...]

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Overcoming the fear of death

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Question: I have been a spiritual seeker almost all my life. I have had many wonderful experiences and feel I have grown and evolved immensely. However, there is still one area which I feel has not changed much and that is my fear of dying. How can I overcome this fear of death? Leonard's answer: If you are not present, and you are functioning mostly from within the mind, then death is always approaching, and it creates fear in two ways. The first is that we are afraid of the unknown, and … [Read more...]

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Radiolab’s “After Life”

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REMEMBER THAT DARK, interconnecting film called 21 Grams? The title refers to the supposed weight of the soul, initially determined by Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Mass., who theorized that after the body dies, it weighs approximately 21 grams less, or three-fourths of an ounce. Now, Dr. MacDougall's research is considered more of a curiosity than scientific certainty but isn't it interesting to consider that science even remotely postulates that it can validate the existence of the … [Read more...]

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How long can we live?

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My guides, the Light Collective, teach that two of the core principles of life are that we create with our thoughts and activate with our emotions. If this is true, though, why do we so often set intentions and nothing happens? I get asked this question a lot from very frustrated people who are activating and intending and manifesting and not seeing their intended results. One thing we need to remember is that we do not live in a bubble, alone from the rest of the world. While we are creating … [Read more...]

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